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Caitlin Colgrove

Founder & CTO, Hex

Caitlin Colgrove is the CTO of Hex Technologies, a collaborative data workspace for building and sharing data projects using SQL and Python. Caitlin has spent her career as a software engineer building data analytics tools, first at Palantir and then later at startups including Remix and Hex. As CTO her focus has expanded from purely technology to include growing and developing diverse and inclusive engineering teams.

Caitlin Colgrove

Sessions / 2024 / 1 talk

  • Panel: Insights from Founders Shaping the Industry's Future

    Join founders George Fraser (Fivetran), Caitlin Colgrove (Hex) and Leah Weiss (PreQL) as they discuss their journeys and share their perspectives on data industry trends. In this all-star panel moderated by Scott Breitenother (Brooklyn Data / Velir) you’ll hear what each stage of the startup process is like, including challenges, lessons learned and what it felt like when everything clicked. We’ll also discuss where the industry is heading, including the impact of AI, data infrastructure trends and the maturing of the modern data stack. This is a rare opportunity to hear from industry leaders who are shaping the world of data.

Sessions / 2022 / 1 talk

  • Beyond Linear Notebooks: Implementing Reactivity with IPython

    Jupyter notebooks are ubiquitous in data science workflows today due to their power and flexibility. However, they do have some drawbacks, including the much discussed issues of hidden state and legibility of logic flow. To address these problems at Hex, we've augmented the IPython kernel to allow for reactive execution of both Python and SQL. This talk will discuss the pros and cons of the traditional IPython execution model versus a reactive model, as well as dive into our implementation of reactive notebooks under the hood.

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